You Can't See How Pink This Pink Is

Your screen just can't handle it.

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Juquai McDuffie

It's easy to think of your computer screen as a window to somewhere else, and that what you're seeing is just about as clear as if you were looking at it through glass. But that's not necessarily true, as this pink paint illustrates. Or as it would if you could see how pink it really is.

YouTuber Tom Scott met up with the creator of what is called "the pinkest pink" Stuart Semple and illustrates his extremely pink paint as well as why it doesn't look the same on screen and in real life. Computer screens can't simulate color perfectly because every pixel has a fixed number of settings, both in color and in brightness. The detail your eyes can see far exceeds those limitations. In this instance, the hue of this pink outstrips what most monitors can show, so you seeing how pink this pink is on your screen is impossible.

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There's no real way to tell whether this is the pinkest pink around, since Semple has plenty of reason to exaggerate the uniqueness of his paint. It's just too bad none of us can even get a rough idea by simply looking through a screen.